“I just want her to know that I’m alive” – Mother of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s Adopted Child Zahara Pleads to “Speak with her”

Mentewab Dawit Lebiso, the biological mother of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt‘s adopted daughter Zahara is pleading to speak with the 12-year-old.

The 31-year-old gave up Zahara as an infant in 2015. She revealed that she was attacked and forced to give up her daughter.

Jolie and Pitt who adopted Zahara in Ethopia when she was six months old, were lied to that the baby had lost her parents to HIV/AIDS.

Lebiso says she just wants to talk to her and keep in touch. She said;

I just want her to know that I am alive and here and long to be able to speak with her. I do not want my daughter back but just to be in contact with her and be able to call her up and talk with her.

I would so much want to celebrate with her on her birthday and other special days. I long to be able to have regular contact with her.I would ask Angelina to let me speak with her. I do not think it is too much to ask.

When asked about the custody battle between Jolie and Pitt, she said;

I do not know who is in the right and who is in the wrong. It is very sad when a marriage breaks up, but I know they will be thinking about their children. I am not worried about Zahara in this as she will be looked after by them both. I know they love the children and they will not want any hurt to come to them.

Why would she pay a cent? You clearly do not know adoption works. When Zahara turns 18 and decides to look for her biological mother, then that is up to her.
The woman is clearly being greedy. Your daughter was adopted by a millionaire and now you’re going all emosh. Please have several seats.

It’s hard decision, isn’t it? To let Zahara see her biological mum. Like, she will inevitably want to keep in touch and grow feelings for her and though this in itself is not bad, the fact is that Brad and Angelina are now her “parents” and have raised her as theirs. Having such affections for her real mum will feel like some sort of disloyalty, no matter how well the adopted parents try to mask it. Oh well.

And this is a major reason why many nigerian women wouldn’t consider adoption. Imagine that angelina is a Nigerian celeb. A lot of people would be supporting the birth mother and insulting the adoptive mother to go and born her own

When you give up a child for adoption you give up all rights to that child. ALL. The adopted parents are not just “helping you” take care of your kids, they have actually become the child’s parents. In other words it is as if an artificial force has wiped you out totally from that child’s ancestry and implanted him in another family line. So you are not entitled to ask for visits, calls or ever contact that child unless he is an adult and he chooses to contact you. And the white people are nother just taking care of him so when he becomes a bug man he will return to you and improve your life. Most Africans do not get this because our cultures have no such thing as this strict adoption. So I hope they explain this well to the parents who give their kids to these oyibos o!!!!

An adopted child that has bonded with his/her parents right as an infant, would find it difficult leaving that parent to accept a ‘random’ biological parent from nowhere. No matter the situation in question, Zahara’s parents remain Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and that’s what the little girl believes and these are the ones she wholeheartedly trust. Okay, put yourself in her shoes, imagine someone coming up to tell you, your present mother, isn’t your real mother, that you have a biological mother somewhere. I bet you will swear to remain with your present mum who has been in your life all these years nurturing you, than to trust or follow that so called stranger called your biological mum.

In this situation, it’s already obvious to the girl that they are not her biological parents. So there is no need to say she believes all the while that they were. The skin colour! My 3year old girl just told me last night. “Oh mummy I’m black!” Well I was shocked but then I guess my kid is not dumb, she goes out everyday and sees that we are a visible minority group. That being said, the adopted parents in this case will always be the girls parents, they are all she’s ever known. All her love is naturally to them. Like you said the bond is there. But to say she never knew? Ta!

Only reason she wants to keep in touch is because her daughters new parents are super successful..if it was an average American I bet she wouldn’t be bothered. Plus her daughters future is already bright having those two as parents she might as well keep the communication lines open in view of future dollars allowance.

I’m sorry but I don’t buy her story of being attacked. Attacked by whom? And what did she do about it all this while? Why is she not naming names or providing details? I am so sick of people who give up their kids for adoption & expect to be paid a lot of money or are waiting for the kids to become big people so that they can tie a big gele to the child’s wedding and say ‘that’s my child o’. No just no. When you give your child up for adoption note that all ties are cut and cut forever. Please don’t be expecting them to visit you for holidays & calling you every Christmas because guess what? It is no one’s responsibility to take care of your children no matter how much you’re struggling. The same thing is happening with the footballer Balotelli. His Ghanaian parents chose to give him up for adoption to Italians & now that he’s made it they’re expecting him to come visit them & give them money & take care of them when they never invested in his life. Oh please.

Why so harsh? were you given up for abduction? Have you considered that maybe she doesn’t know who attacked her? I actually think she only genuinely wants to speak to her daughter, no force can wipe the bond away, she carried that child, she birthed that child and it couldn’t have been easy to give her up but she did the courageous thing and gave her daughter up so that she could have a better life. Magic Johnson’s adopted daughter still considers the Johnsons her parents but also acknowledges her bio-mum and the siblings she has from her as her family as well. Nothing stops Zahara from calling her bio mum, it isn’t such a big deal, please lets show some empathy abeg!

this is a very painful experience.please the biological mum should let the little girl be and stop the disturbance. the law of adoption has automatically made jolie and the pitt the parents,the ethopian is just her biological mother and besides, the little girl recognizes the pitts because they have been by her all these years. she is well cared for by them and very happy.

So because a rich popular woman whose identity you have access to and are therefore able to trace your child was the one to adopt, you’re just going to capitalise on that?
What if a regular human being adopted her???
Where would you find them to ha like this??
Africans can shame men

@Justina, please can I just say there is nothing absolutely nothing WRONG in adopting a child. I absolutely LOATHE the Nigerian community for this being against adoption. Do you know how many children that are praying to be adopted each year? Couples with love in their hearts and cannot adopt? It is sad. Even more interesting, I know couples who have struggled to conceive and adopted and gone on to have many children.
I know a couple 30years on no children, yet imagine if they adopted? The life they could offer?.
If anything one can foster’?
Is adoption easy? No.
Does it have complications? Sometimes.
But whatever it is, as parents are praying, children are praying too.
Life is truly unfair!